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Fancy Fish Heads to Cap Off Your Pond Design


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#1 DoDad

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Posted 18 February 2010 - 02:05 AM

My nrw pond will hsve fish heads like these.

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#2 koidaddy

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Posted 18 February 2010 - 12:58 PM

DoDad that is a work of art!

#3 DoDad

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Posted 18 February 2010 - 03:46 PM

The heads came from Key West.

koidaddy said:

DoDad that is a work of art!


#4 undrtkr_00

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Posted 18 February 2010 - 05:10 PM

Looks really sharp, though I think you'll have trouble making those out of PVC. :sun_smiley:
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#5 koikeepr

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Posted 20 February 2010 - 01:56 PM

This is something I actually needed to see, as I'm going to have a new pond that is against a deck, and I'll need some higher wall like that. Do the heads spit out water, too? If so, how do you plumb these heads DoDad? Do you just run pipe up the inside of the wall? I could probably get away with going behind a wall since no one will see the back.

I plan on cladding my new pond with slate tile just like this one you show here, so this pond was nice to see. What are the capstones made out of?

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Posted 20 February 2010 - 04:43 PM

Actually there is a 2" pipe inside the fish heads so there's really no water touching the fish heads. I'll check with him to see what he used for the capstones.

#7 DoDad

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Posted 20 February 2010 - 04:52 PM

They are concrete capstones.

#8 ctrgojo

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Posted 20 February 2010 - 10:29 PM

Wow those are awesome!

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Posted 21 February 2010 - 01:23 PM

It looks great Do Dad
When you turn the head on send another picture

#10 koikeepr

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Posted 21 February 2010 - 04:47 PM

i do see the pipe in the fish's mouth now that you mentioned it and took a closer look. Most interesting. I guess one could use anything that looks like this with an open hole and a pipe placed neatly inside. Hmm....this gives me ideas that I hadn't thought about. I was worried about where I'd put a waterfall since I'm building an above ground pond and I really don't have the room for one--but a few of these could easily take the place of a fall and give a real modern, ornamental feel.

I agree with the doc, I'd love to see these heads in action. Give us a video if you can get the owner to send you one DoDad. In fact, I'd love to see the whole pond in action.

Any word on filtration that was used on this pond and how/where it was set up. I love to see other people's piping and plumbing! LOL!

#11 tonyb

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Posted 22 February 2010 - 04:56 AM

Those do look great. Just curious though as to what a couple fish heads like that costs.

#12 DoDad

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Posted 22 February 2010 - 04:35 PM

They were $65 each + shipping.
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#13 DoDad

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Posted 22 February 2010 - 05:03 PM

Here is a pic of his waterfall running.

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#14 koikeepr

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Posted 23 February 2010 - 12:02 AM

oh yeah! that's nice! I was afraid you were gonna say that those fish heads were way more expensive....

#15 j.w

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Posted 23 February 2010 - 07:09 PM

DoDad, it all looks very nice and love your fish heads :fish: